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African Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 122 Collections and/or Records:

A. Mercer Daniel Photographic Album

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-003
Scope and Contents This collection is a personal photo album created by A. Mercer Daniel, a law librarian and the first African American member of the American Association of Law Libraries, documenting the 1910s–1960s with an emphasis on the 1930s. There are 216 photographs on 114 pages, mostly black and white and some sepia; most inserted into corner mounts, the rest adhesive mounted. Most photographs measure 2 ¼” x 3” to 5 ½” x 3 ½”, all are captioned. 22 photographs lacking from album and 2 with surface...
Dates: 1910 - 1960

A. S. Williams III Civil Rights Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WP-016
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs and manuscripts related to the United States Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968). The images depict major events, key figures, and opposition from hate groups. While the collection focuses heavily on Alabama, there are additional events and locations represented.

Dates: 1920 - 1985

African American Mounted Photographs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WP-014
Abstract

A collection of thirteen black-and-white mounted portraits depicting African Americans.

Dates: 1920 - 1939

Alabama Nurses Association records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0044
Abstract

This collection includes meeting minutes, 1913-1940, copies of the organization's newsletter, 1958-1972, miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and correspondence, a few rosters, and papers relating to admitting African Americans to the association, 1949-1950.

Dates: 1913-1977

Anna Lively Letters, 1933-1937

 File — Box 4257.020: [Barcode: 1006214244], Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Letters and postcards to Anna Lively of Louisville, Kentucky, primarily from her husband A. J. Lively, a porter with the Pullman Company, telling her about his travels, as well as discussing politics, religion, and personal health. There is also a promissory note to the Pullman Company for an advance on his salary.

Dates: 1933-1937

Aunt Judy holding an infant, 1923 November

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 1006235689], Folder: 2011.004.000264
Identifier: 2011.004.000264
Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting views of the Black Warrior River; camping near the Black Warrior River; students, buildings, and scenes at The University of Alabama campus; portrait of Pauline Jones Gandrud; Jones’s campsite and other views in Mexico; George Walter Jones’s home in Huntsville, Alabama, and other views around town; Walter B. Jones and other views at Chapel Hill, North Carolina; scenes at Johns Hopkins University; honorable military discharge, record, and commission of Walter B....
Dates: 1923 November

Jesse Beene letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0128
Abstract

Two letters written from Cahawba, Alabama, to Rowland G. Hazard in Peace Dale, Rhode Island. The first, dated 14 July 1839, orders shoes for Beene's sixty-eight slaves and includes a list of slaves and a measurement of their feet in inches. In the second, dated 16 December 1841, Beene expresses dissatisfaction with both shoes and prices.

Dates: 1839-1841

Bill of Sale for Enslaved Man Named Zeke

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0012
Abstract

Bill of sale and warrantee for an enslaved person, Zeke, sold by W. S. Adkins of Lowndes County, Alabama, for $1600. The buyer's name is illegible.

Dates: 1860-02-16

Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0157
Abstract

Several newspaper clippings relating to the trial of several white men for the murder of Walter P. Billings, an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, on 1 August 1874, and also a lengthy jury charge by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans.

Dates: 1873

Charlie J. Black papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0167
Abstract

Photocopy of Black’s autobiography, “After The Fact: 20/20 Hindsight,” which covers Black’s youth in Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama, his upbringing, education, teaching career, and political life in Washington. Also, some correspondence and newspaper articles by Black.

Dates: 1985-1987

Buford Boone papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0187
Abstract

Correspondence, scrapbooks, litigation papers, speeches, editorials, etc., of this Pulitzer Prize winner and long-time Tuscaloosa News editor.

Dates: 1935-1968; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1968

Glenda Brewer research paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0208
Abstract

Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.

Dates: 1975

Brien Chapel A.M.E. Church records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0211
Abstract

Records of this African Methodist Episcopal church in Burnsville, Alabama, from 1924-1973.

Dates: 1924-1973; Majority of material found within 1926 - 1956

Brown Hill School Trustees' minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0217
Abstract

Trustees' minutes, covering 1916-1924 (including parents' rolls), of this school for African American students in Loachapoka, Lee County, Alabama.

Dates: 1916-1924

Bruce A. Hood Paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0696
Abstract

Paper entitled "Some Rambling Thoughts on the American Negro and Current Related Issues," describing life for African Americans since emancipation

Dates: 1965

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands labor contract

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0230
Abstract

Labor contract dated 16 June 1865 with estate of Greene Underwood of Dallas Co., Alabama, binding former slaves to plantation in return for food, clothing and medical care

Dates: 1865 June 16

Joe W. Burleson deposition

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0232
Abstract

Tuscaloosa, Alabama Circuit Court deposition, dated 3 February 1977, of the plaintiff in civil action no. 7984, Joe W. Burleson vs. National Broadcasting Co., et al.

Dates: 1977 February 3

Calhoun School Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0260
Abstract

Photocopy of the songbook "Calhoun Plantation Songs," 3rd ed. (1923) edited by Emily Hollowell, first published in 1901 to raise money for this Lowndes County, Alabama, school for African-Americans, and six postcard views of the school and students, etc.

Dates: 1891-1923

Carriere and Borduzat conveyance

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0282
Abstract

Notarized document dated 22 April 1836, for sale of slaves in New Orleans by (Auguste) Carriere & (Daniel Gregoire) Borduzat to Prosper Foy.

Dates: 1836 April 22

Central Iron and Coal Company Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-009
Abstract

Central Iron and Coal photographic collection consist of images depicting different aspects of coal and iron production, from mining to building a furnace and transporting the material by train, as well as workers' houses, offices, and stores. Some of the photographs have locations identified as Bibbville and Vance, Alabama.

Dates: 1901 - 1903

Civilians and military watching baseball game at Schofield Barracks, 1914-1918

 Item — Box 3: [Barcode: 1006063504], Folder: 273
Identifier: 2008.034.000273
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of 534 photographs from World War I, a drawing, and a short narrative.

Dates: 1914-1918

Clipping about Langston Hughes, 1995

 File — Box 4265.001: [Barcode: 1006233187], Folder: 56
Scope and Contents

One book review for a volume of collected poems by American poet Langston Hughes (1901-1967) from The New York Times, February 8, 1995.

Dates: 1995

Creole Social Club records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0374
Abstract

Insurance policies on the club house, an account book from a Mobile, Alabama, apothecary with the club, and tickets for social events sponsored by this African-American social club.

Dates: 1878-1902

W. E. B. Du Bois papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3889
Abstract

Typewritten works by DuBois, including an essay entitled "The Future of Africa in America" as well as a list of "Books on the African American"

Dates: Circa 1940

Farm Security Administration Photographs

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 1006235609]
Identifier: 2009-093
Abstract

The collection consists of eighty copy photographs. Originals were taken by the Farm Security Administration's photographers of Alabama agriculture and industry during the Depression. Primarily images of white and African American sharecropper families and homes, churches, schools, and farm scenes. Photographs were taken around Moundville, Eutaw, Selma, Scottsboro, Greensboro, and Birmingham, Alabama. Originals are stored at the Library of Congress.

Dates: 1930 - 1942

Folder 7, 1890s

 File — Box 69: [Barcode: 1006213222], Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7

Folder 9, 1890s

 File — Box 69: [Barcode: 1006213222], Folder: 9
Identifier: Folder 9

Folder 13, 1890s

 File — Box 69: [Barcode: 1006213222], Folder: 13
Identifier: Folder 13

Folder 15

 File — Box 70: [Barcode: 1006213223], Folder: 15
Identifier: Folder 15
Scope and Conternts note

Photographs depicting unidentified people.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 16

 File — Box 70: [Barcode: 1006213223], Folder: 16
Identifier: Folder 16
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting unidentified people.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 17

 File — Box 70: [Barcode: 1006213223], Folder: 17
Identifier: Folder 17
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting unidentified people.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 18

 File — Box 70: [Barcode: 1006213223], Folder: 18
Identifier: Folder 18
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting unidentified people.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 19

 File — Box 70: [Barcode: 1006213223], Folder: 19
Identifier: Folder 19
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting unidentified people.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 22

 File — Box 71: [Barcode: 1006213224], Folder: 22
Identifier: Folder 22
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting unidentified people.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 30

 File — Box 72: [Barcode: 1006213225], Folder: 30
Identifier: Folder 30
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting unidentified people.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 31

 File — Box 72: [Barcode: 1006213225], Folder: 31
Identifier: Folder 31
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting unidentified people, church buildings, urban areas, railroad tracks, and cotton gin.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 32

 File — Box 73: [Barcode: 1006213226], Folder: 32
Identifier: Folder 32
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting unidentified people and places.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 33

 File — Box 73: [Barcode: 1006213226], Folder: 33
Identifier: Folder 33
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting unidentified people and places.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 34

 File — Box 73: [Barcode: 1006213226], Folder: 34
Identifier: Folder 34
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting unidentified people, factory interior, and cemetery scene.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 35

 File — Box 73: [Barcode: 1006213226], Folder: 35
Identifier: Folder 35
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting unidentified people, farm scene, and family portraits.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 38

 File — Box 74: [Barcode: 1006213227], Folder: 38
Identifier: Folder 38
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting people playing cards, portraits of unidentified people, and family portraits.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 39

 File — Box 75: [Barcode: 1006213228], Folder: 39
Identifier: Folder 39
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting church interior, school picnic, unidentified people, and grocery store.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 41

 File — Box 75: [Barcode: 1006213228], Folder: 41
Identifier: Folder 41
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting portraits of unidentified people, visit to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, fairgrounds, school children with their teachers, canoeing, and covered bridge in Cambridgeboro, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 46

 File — Box 76: [Barcode: 1006213229], Folder: 46
Identifier: Folder 46
Scope and Contents note

Photographs are depicting school children, family portraits, and other unidentified people.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 48

 File — Box 76: [Barcode: 1006213229], Folder: 48
Identifier: Folder 48
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting aerial view of Wallace, Idaho, a grocery store, and unidentified people.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 51

 File — Box 77: [Barcode: 1006213230], Folder: 51
Identifier: Folder 51
Scope and Contents note

Photographs depicting unidentified people, and places.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Folder 53

 File — Box 77: [Barcode: 1006213230], Folder: 53
Identifier: Folder 53
Scope and Contents note

Photographs are depicting a river dam, construction are, unidentified families, and a school building.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Frederick D. Kennedy collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4182
Abstract

Photographs, scrapbooks, postcards, and assorted memorabilia

Dates: Majority of material found within 1864 - 1959

Frederick D. Kennedy Vintage Glass Paperweight Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4181
Abstract

Vintage glass paperweight collection primarily featuring United Methodist or Methodist Episcopal churches around the turn of the twentieth century

Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1972

Henry Gant Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4172
Abstract

Scrapbook, which covers over fifty years, focuses on the Gant family of Hiller and Brownsville, Pennsylvania, particularly on Henry Gant and his sons, Gene and Tim.

Dates: 1932-1988